Sorry to drag this out further, but Tony made some interesting points: > 2. Mail client automatically starts the reply at the top. I expect your car usually starts journeys in a garage - but you don't leave it there. The *correct* place for the cursor is indeed at the top - you then work your way down through your reply, snipping and quoting as appropriate. > 3. Even though I'm usually an evil top-poster I usually take the time > to trim out the bottom irrelevant copy. It's the multiply quoted crud from people that don't bother to trim that gets so objectionable, particularly if you take the digest. > I haven't seen anyone complain of 'top-posting' on any of those lists. > What's up with that? Newbies, innit. Until quite recently top-posting was such a non-issue that the various fairly old netiquette guides barely mention it - everybody knew that answers come *after* questions. > message. Bottom posting is annoying to me because I need > to scroll through the all-ready read top crap to get to > the new info. Then people are not trimming enough. > 6. Net things are in constant flux. Things change. People > change. Software changes. Good point; but I don't think mailing lists have changed. I'll just say that my original complaint was about HTML / MIME; the top-posting bit was an after-thought. _______________________________________________ cobalt-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
